Manufacturers will tell you that unified storage arrays are the shangri-la for enterprise storage, yet few environments need every protocol. Virtualization, databases, cloud and file all have different needs for the best user experience.

Despite this, I heard from the majority of the senior IT staff for the first 5-10 years of my IT career that, “fibre channel is the most secure, best performance protocol and should be used for all enterprise-class products.” Until I really started looking at different protocols, I would have agreed. Fibre channel keeps all of your traffic isolated with very little work, primarily because you need a special switch and specific cabling and host bus adapters.

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